#it's my day off today though ^_^

[headslikekites]

employment squeezing dry my energy like a damn sponge but every day I rise regardless and I fight to stay silly

[iizubuzu]

Happy Splatoween. . .

my ko-fi!

i got this idea super last minute so ignore the quality

[cecilyacat]

I finished my sweater ❤️❤️❤️ The pattern is Koivua by Caitlin Hunter which I liberally changed: completely different yarn gauge, left out the texture pattern, mirrored the colourwork on the body and sleeves to make it longer, different cuffs and collar, completely altered the fit (from oversized to tight fitting in the body and sleeves that actually fit my arms and aren't 3 sizes too small - a lot of math that actually payed off ❤️)

Blocking did wonders, the back was bunching up weirdly between the yoke and body colourwork but that's completely gone now! The stitches evened out beautifully as well ❤️

Some ✨ aesthetic ✨ detail shots 😊

Overall, I am SO HAPPY with how this turned out! 🥰🥰🥰 I love the colours, I love the fit, the wool is a bit scratchy but I'm not super sensitive to that so it's fine (and maybe wearing it will soften the wool as well). Now please wish me luck that the weather stays cold for a bit so I can still wear it lots before spring comes! 😃

Bonus picture of Tilly literally less than 5 minutes after I laid the sweater down to dry... 🤦‍♀️

[umbrvx]

[ @orvwomenweek ] ljh + childhood || day 2

[blueberrybanee]

Hihihi, I'm sorry for not posting for a while, and I know this is super late, but have this drawing I made for the anniversary of the airing of Hostage Crisis, Cad Bane's first ever appearance on screen!!! :D

Okay, I'm gonna go rest now cuz I worked my ass off on this, even though it doesn't really look it to me SOBS. Goodnight y'all

[vampyrebellion]

Who am I now in this world without him?

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

[irenespring]

Thoughts on Bertha Russell (Many Thoughts)

I am So curious about Bertha Russell's backstory. We have little snippets:

Her father was a potato farmer.

She has lots of mommy issues. (George mentions her mother said she was the only child "worthy of her dreams" to which Bertha angrily responds that her mother's dreams were worthless because she died with nothing which is A Lot)

She has sibling issues. (George offers to invite her sister to a thing and she refuses)

She and George met when they were both poor, they made the fortune together.

She had a distinct learning curve when they first got to New York. She bought The Wrong House and made The Wrong Friends and had to learn and relearn things over a period of years. (I am especially interested about this time, because she would know Nothing, being the ultimate outsider, but she is a tactical genius and viciously ambitious...I want to see young!Bertha in the early stages of the struggle before she knows how to dress/talk/act).

I hope we will learn more about her because more than any of the other characters she wants things. Things that are nebulous, but she doesn't seem to realize are nebulous, because she has clear goals but they don't satisfy her so she has to make another goal. Loving husband doing well? Not enough. They have enough money to hear the call of the guillotine? It's not enough, they need status. They have status? Not enough, they need to beat Lina Astor. Now they've beaten Lina Astor, but I don't think anyone thinks that's going to be enough. George points out multiple times that he is content where he is and content to let their children marry for love to people of what Bertha considers middling station. She's the sole driving force for continued social climbing. And it doesn't matter how high they get, she wants to go higher, she wants to go "all the way" but there isn't an all the way unless I guess you're Empress of the World. But then the moon starts looking awfully conquerable.

She claims she's doing it for their children, but both children have said her suggestions aren't what they want. And it is heavily implied she just sold her only daughter to the Duke so he would attend an opera performance. She wants Gladys to marry the Duke so that she will be grandmother to English nobility. It's for her. So she is willing to use her children, her alleged motivation, as pawns. They aren't her real motivation after all, even if she may think they are. I do think she loves her children and George. I also think that she thinks she's helping Gladys, but I also think there's a limit to that love because it exists beside the yawning void of hunger within her psyche. George outright asks her if his love for her is enough to make her happy early in s1, because her love is enough for him. She says it's "almost enough" and that's significant and enough for him, which is telling, when usually any answer other than "yes of course" would be taken by a love interest as a searing betrayal. Anyway, the point is, her kids/her family are, at least, not her entire motivation and might not factor into her motivation at all, if she is fully honest with herself.

So, the hunger. The call to Rise. The rage that has her hyperventilating in bed alone after her failed party instead of crying in her husband's arms like most television characters would do. The instinct to look upon a room of people and think you will all bow to me you sniveling mortals. Why is it there? Like...why is she Like This? I think some of it has to come from what we can learn just from George's comment about impossibly ambitious, ruthless, low empathy Bertha being the only one "worthy of her mother's dreams." Which means her mother had dreams that were very important to her and that she never achieved. Her mother also guarded said dreams and judged her children harshly, we know Bertha has at least one sister, who is apparently judged not worthy in the eyes of her own mother. We know Bertha does not like talking about this and tries to dismiss it. Was there pressure on Bertha to be worthy? When could that have started and how did it manifest? Circling back to my interest in young!Bertha in NY, if the social rejection was bad in s1, it was probably worse then, and constant social failures would have made her angrier and more determined to both to become the queen of New York society and to see it burn. This is all stuff I want to learn more about in season 3.

HERE IS WHERE I PRETTY MUCH JUST DO PREDICTIONS (WHICH MAY BE TINFOIL, IDK):

Because I think we will finally get to see Bertha Russell: Season Villain. Every season needs a villain, and Bertha has pretty much vanquished all of them. The first couple seasons the overarching villain has been New York Society with its inequalities and pointless social cruelty, if that holds, Bertha is now the head of that system, having beaten Lina Astor and set herself up as the queen. Additionally, side opponents (not really villains) like Agnes also aren't in a position to make major problems for the protagonists because the Van Rhijn household is now the Forte household and cinnamon roll Ada is now in charge. Unless Agnes attempts to usurp her sister in a subplot (which I don't think will happen except for maybe one episode of hijinx) she's not in a powerful spot. The Society character is indisputably Bertha. And Bertha has been up to some serious villain shit. If she did agree to marry Gladys to the Duke, she's now against All the Protagonists---a sure sign of villain status. She's even against her husband, who swore to back Gladys in her choice of love match, and Gladys doesn't like the Duke. If Gladys wants out, Larry will almost certainly help her. And Saint Marian will help Larry either for love reasons or moral reasons, and hopefully Peggy has better things to do but she will probably get dragged into it somehow and if Marian's involved Ada's also involved and you see where this is going.

Also, show pacing wise, Bertha is due for a loss. I love her and I want her to win everything and be declared Empress of Earth and Moon but realistically that isn't going to happen. In a show where villains lose, it checks out. Gladys isn't going to marry the Duke, and if she does, everyone is going to regret it. One reason I think we will learn more about Bertha and her history is because if she loses she's going to Lose It. Dramatic monologue style. When she had a party and no one came she swore eternal vengeance and spent the night Angry Breathing and presumably fantasizing about the Red Wedding. She doesn't handle losing well. A big public loss after achieving every status symbol she could think of would probably break her mind, and she'll probably tell whoever she's talking to (probably George) enough backstory info that we the audience can fill in stuff. This is also where I would guess she and George would reconcile where he would see she is the person he loves and has not transformed into an automaton, she's just Messed Up, which he always knew and loved so he is Back In.

IN CONCLUSION:

This is who Marina was writing about. She is a primadonna girl, and all she ever wanted was the world. She cannot help that she needs it all, in this case the primadonna life: both the rise and the fall. She also knows exactly what she wants and who she wants to be. This is why she walks and talks like a machine. Unfortunately, she is becoming a self-fulfilled prophecy.

Oh, oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh.

[dimsilver]

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[solar--symphony]

I don’t sleep much, that's crazy, how’d you know that? Keep myself up, that’s maybe how you know that, My hallucination I used to see.

Immediately knew I had to try redrawing these scenes from The Contract's MV.

These were fun to do! And I'm pretty proud of how they came out! Thanks for the beautiful cinematic shots to be inspired from!

[911bts]

genuinely curious: was that hair person not talking about a similar event that happened literally on 9/11 when most people got to leave work and school and she was unable to? it seems like her kids are old and have their own kids.

Okay, now that I've re-read it, I do see that that's what they're saying.

But there was crew posting photos on the lot today and other people in the comments of that post mentioning 911 in the context of the show and Ryan Murphy.

[lyxchen]

Say it with me: I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers, I will not look at spoilers-

[sainz100]

waiting the same way

[nextnumbermuppetjokerfan]

my croakerverse sims <3

okay here's @the-muppet-joker sim. he's bald right now but only sometimes (i liked his regular hair and didn't want to part ways with it fully)

hi @lifedoesntdiscriminate. he's a chef in my save file. i had to actively search for and download a variety of cat ear cc for him. i don't really like the way the hair looks but it's the closest one i've got to what i was imagining

hi @minuseyes. her sim is a werewolf (obviously) so i've included both human and wolf form

@mydarlingathena. vomit emoji. first outfit is more for the roommate arc, second is for her current "normal" arc. she's a vampire sim, because she sucks!!!!!! i don't imagine her hair as white, but rather black with white streaks or roots. one, because i think it looks cooler, and two because symbolism or whatever. something about how she can never have "pure" white hair while still clinging onto her dark desires. wants the benefits of having white hair without the commitment. idk man this is a sim

hii @sarasometimes. i made her sim an alien because it was the closest occult type to bugs i could get. also the alien occult allows you to make a sim purple and i feel like sara would be down to be purple if she had the option, but maybe only sometimes. first fit i was trying to match the vibes of that one dollmaker pic she did to represent herself (i didn't have a good hat to go with it unforchies). second fit was just for fun. a second option for when Sara Sometimes might not want to be purple

@alexander-thornton. he was a werewolf but died becuz of poison lol. i used my awesome sims god powers to bring him back to life with the sole purpose of showing the beast form fit. i gave him this fit specifically because it had dirt on it and i imagine he had rolled around in quite a bit of that before dying

@consciousgordiacea! i struggled a lot with gordon for worm-related reasons. for similar reasons as sara, i opted to make gordon an alien (the reason being purple). this sim def needs work still but that's gordon! ignore that eggplant thing in the corner. i don't know what that is.

@chronicallychthonic! i spent so much time trying to make the face semi-match the self portrait emily had posted recently. i think for the restrictions the sims 4 gives me i did pretty decent. i made emily a spellcaster

I also have a sim for Mavis however comma I do not think that he looks very good right now. I think I will wait to get a better idea of what he looks like canonically before sharing

[siena-sevenwits]

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[wackywatchdotcom]

ive posted so much every single day on this blog for weeks now i feel weird having barely posted today . ive been busy but uhhh heres a random image i never posted from my tadc art folder?